Career
Alley was a native of Ballinasloe and is credited with much of the responsibility for the erection of the Methodist chapel of Galway, at what was later to be known as Victoria Place. While assisting the sick and hungry, Alley became infencted with fever and died in June 1849. Both of them were buried at the back of chapel at Victoria Place, over which an impressive monument with a corinthian pillar was erected.
He was an older brother of George Alley.
